Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-08-26

wooden mill in that city, and this sum
will he sufficient for the enterprise
The steam er Josephine will resume
her route between Seattle and Hoods
Canal ports at once. She will be i'll
command of her owner, Captain d. X.
Howard.
1t has been decided by the Govern
ment to put the snag boat Skagit t.
work above Snohomish City, remOv-
ing some of the. dangerous snags i'll
that stream.
The Clarke County commissioners
added six hundred and twenty-four
names to the assessment roll which
had been missed by the assessor and
his deputies.
Tacoma has made application for a
free delivery postal service. To do
this the postoffice at old Tacoma must
be discontinued. Mr.. Mason, the In
spectOr, recommends 1t.
The first sawmill ever started in
Clalam county was started at Port
Angeles last week. A large body OF
timber has been secured for IS, 600
sufficient to keep the mill going for
Is years.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars
which convened at Vancouver, last
Monday, reelected the old officers for
the ensuing term, viz: NJ. A. Root
w. C. T; Jas. Campbell Secretary,
and Mrs. Jones, of Seattle, Treasurer.
District Court convenes in Seattle
next Monday, Chief justice Jones pre-
siding. The docket contains about $50
or 800 cases, and all of them which
are ready for trial, will be set down
on the trial calendar during the first
few days of the term.
The Chinese firm of Wa Chong &
Co., Seattle, have made a contract
with the Oregon Railway & Naviga-
ton Company to ship -four from Day
ton to Vancouver, B. c., via Portland
at q IS ton rate. From Vancouver i,
will 60 to China by the Canadian
Pacific steamer line.
A proposition in now being can.
vassed in Yakima county to authorize
the issue of county bonds to the
amount of $4,000. The indebted
ness of the county amounts to nearly
that sum, and is bearing heavy rate
of interest, which can be greatly les
soned by issuing bonds.
A toothpick" 154 feet in length
Sc inches in diameter at the but and
% inches at the top, was hauled al
Blackman Bros logging camp neal
Marysville, one day last week. 1t
will be towed to Blakely, and from
their shipped to San Francisco, fol-
Exposition at the State Fair.
Elma Lodge No, Al, l. o. 0. F., wa.
instituted on the 10Th instant, by d
d. G. NJ, John NJ. Swan, assisted by
c. r. Talcott, J. r. Pattison and Frank
Snyder, of Olympia, and Mat. Matson
of Montesano. The following are the
officers of the lodge: G. F. Meyer, N
G.; E. Erickson, V. G.; T. c. Chill
cote, S., and B. r. Martin, T.
There are in Tacoma at present
several gentlemen representing large
lumber interests Of the East. They
are looking over the ground with a
view of establishing large sawmill
having in connection a mandatory
for the purpose OF supplying Eastern
architects with houses all framed and
prepared to be put together wherever
it is desired to erect them.
A party of men crossed the Column
bia Rivor here this week in a small
boat and after looking around quite u
while went across the Island and were
seen taking soundings in the main
channel toward the Oregon shore. 1,
is suspected that they were connected
with the Southern Pacific Railroad
and were prospecting for a place to
cross the Columbia River to reach
Puget Sound with their line. This ID
certainly the most favorable place for
bridging the Columbia.-La Camas
NeWs.
The four masted schooner building
at Port Ludlow for the Puget mill com.
pany by Middlemas & Boole, of San
Francisco, is being planked. Hiram
Doncaster, the well known shipwright
of Tacoma, is experimenting the
work. She is 200 feet long, 40 feet
beam, 16 feet hold. She will carry /,
DOC. 600 feet of lumber and will be
used in the coasting trade. Her masts
are IS feet long, a fine specimen o.
Puget Sound spars. The three-masted
schooner building alongside of the
fourmasted vessel also by Middlemas
and BoOle, for parties in California, is
nearing completion. She will be
called the W. f. Jewett.
At present, indications promise q
good price for Washington Territory
hops this year. The yield is admitted
to be a comparatively light one in
every hop-growing district of the
world, even in this Territory, which is
seldom affected seriously by adverse
climatic conditions. Growers will
doubtless watch their chances to sell
at what they consider the opportune
moment. On this subject OF timely
sale an article from Wisconsin paper
contains an interesting interview
with an old grower. who says that in
nine cases out of ten, growers who sell
in September or October hit the nail
ON the head, while those who hold in
definitely for higher market gener
ally come short. There might be such
thing as selling hops in too much Of
a hurry, though it is probably wisest
to sell whenever fair price can be
got.-Puyallup Commerce.
It will be remembered that Judge
Langford, of the Supreme Court Of
this Territory, in his concurring opin-
ion in the famous Harland case, held
in substance. that the code of Wash.
ington Territory was not the law Of
said Territory, but a book compiled
and edited by private party, and that
an act amending certain sections ol
the code did not change acts previous.
ly passed by the Legislature. This
question lately came before Chiel
Justice Jones, while holding District
Court at Chehalis. He decided that
the code was sufficiently authenticated
to be taken ~ the law of this Territory
and that an amendment thereto would
amend acts passed by the Legislature
There is no doubt, said prominent
l., uyx,a, of TocoDno hit that a